Meditabor in mandatis tuis

General information

Offertory for Lent II, in the modern 3-year lectionaries also assigned to Ordinary Time 29. Source of text is Psalm 118:47,48a (Vulgate)

Settings by composers

• Gregorian chant
• Johann Kaspar Aiblinger SATB (basso seguente ad lib.)
• Orlando di Lasso SATB
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SATTB
• Georg von Pasterwitz SATB (basso seguente ad lib.)
• Josef Rheinberger (Op. 133 No. 3) SSATTB (also in 11 Motteten)
• Franz Xaver Witt SATB

Text and translations

Latin text 118:47  Meditabor in mandatis tuis, quae dilexi valde: 118:48a  et levabo manus meas ad mandata tua, quae dilexi.

English translation 119:47  I will meditate on thy commandments, which I have loved exceedingly: 119:48a  and I will lift up my hands to thy commandments, which I have loved.